The Arizona champion., 1887-05-07
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
 SATURDAY, MAY 1. 1881.
THE. WORLD IN BRIEF.

The Interstate Commerce Com mission are now in Louisiana.
 Henry George is about starting on a lecture tour through the west.
 The senatorial deadlock still con. tinues in the Florida legislature.
 The Kiowas and Comanches are on the war path in northern Texas.
 Buffalo Bill and his Indian show is attracting great attention in London.
 Col. Glider is making preparations for another dash at the arctic regions.
 Natural gas has been struck at Ot-- tawa, in Kansas, at a depth of Goo feet.
 On her trial trip the new Eng lish cruiser Orlando made I9 knots an hour.
 Gordon M. Mott, one of the earli- est pioneer judges of California. is dead.
 The New York Tablet is being boy cested by the friends of Dr. Nc Glynn.
 The Southern Pacific train robbers have been spotted, and will soon be arrested.
 Governor Torres denies that there is any cholera either in Guaymas or Mazatlan,
 It is rumored that Germany will declare martial law shortly in Alsace Lorraine.
 Signourey Butler of Boston has been appointed second comptroller of the treasury.
 The total capital of the W estern Union Telegraph company is now SSI, 1000, 900.
 The pepe will celebrate the soth. anniversary of his entrance into holy orders this year.
 The total cost of the public printing at Washington for the last fiscal year was S2,763,376.44.
 A member of the Michigan Legisla- ture, named Dakin, has been expelled for receiving bribe.
 A fourteen.year-old bootblack was killed on the Santa Fe road, near AL buquerlue, the other day.
 The Illinois legislature has passed a law making marriage between first cousins incestuous and void.
 Capital is accumulating so rapidly in Epnlapd that ;nyaetorc ora e,t;eEa1 with 5 per cent. per annum.
 Six Nihilists have been condemned to death for csmplicity in a plot to assassinate the Czar of Russia.
 The Grant relics were put on exhi- bition for the first time in Washington on the Generals sixty-ffth birthday.
 Michigan has passed law making 1t illegal for any nonresident to do any kind of police duty. This knocks Pinkerton's men.
 Senator Vest denies that he is the senator whom report gave the credit for stating that the president would not accept renomination.
 There is gun now being cast at Krupp's factory for the German gov. ernment which will be the largest in the world. It weighs I43 tons.
 Lorenzo Torres has been elected governor of Sonora, Mexico. AL though having the same name, he is | no relative of the present governor. sEranL W,lL.r .ha ,ncos,,o,.o young man whoso leg was crushed at Albuquerque railway depot, died | while the leg was being amputated.
 A colossal system of robbery by | means of prepared cards has been de. tected at Monte Carlo by not until the proprieters had lost nearly SIoo, 900.
 The youngest murderer on record is in Charleston, s. C., and is only : years old. He stuck a fork into his baby sisters head to stop her from crying.
 Judge Mcconnell, the new Chief Justice of Montana, is an aggressive temperance man. He closed up every saloon in his judicial district in Ten. nessee.
 Patti has signed a contract with MT. Abbey to go through South America. She is to receive Sr,ooo for every night she sings and all of her travelling expenses.
 Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii is on her road to the eastern states from California. As usual the people are making fools of themselves over re- al live queen.
 Senator Edmunds is said to be very partial to particularly fine brand of old rye, and seldom drinks wine when there is any toddy around. He also smokes and chews.
 A painful impression was produced | on the spectators in the outer hall of the court at St. Petersburg, as the prisoners engaged in the plot to kill the Czar entered the court. Their l youth and high. bred air elicited much | sympathy. Among the prisoners is a maiden of striking beauty. The Mexicans have discovered al new way of indulging in their favorite sport of bull batting, by using electric lights. At the first ex- hibition, in the City of Mexico, on Saturday last, four horses were killed | and two matadores injured so badly |